Yep, we as medical personnel have encountereds them. That's what I'm looking for those events you've experienced in ER that were related to cooking:
Example:
The burn victim I had transported into our ER one afternoon when he pulled the "Start the BBQ using regular gasoline trick"
Initially, while in his backyard getting ready for company to arrive and after having ingested a few bbers to prime himself he attempted to prime the briquets in his BBQ kettle. He only had a small amount of old lighter fluid & the briquets did not light. Anxious that the BBQ would not be ready when his friends arrived he went to the garage & retrieved the spouted gas can for fueling the lawn mower. He sets about pouring the petrol onto the briquets not noticing that some of the charcoals had minimally ignited which did the same to the gas streaming from the can. The flame travelled back up to the can and it exploded. Now, in that instant he is covered in flame and tosses what's left of the fuel can back over his shoulder which lands on the roof of his house setting his home aflame.
The quick response of his wife covering the guy in a blanket, the fire department & the ambulance not only saved the guys life but most of his home.
We were told by the parameds the guy's friends stuck around and BBQ'd thier brat's and drank beer since the coals were going anyway & they had live entertainment watching the fire department & ambulance crew doing thier jobs.
Share your cooking related emergency experiences with us.
down in SC it's not too often that we get and ice storm that debilitated our area as last winter. this darwin award winner boiled water in a 2 gallon bason to pour down his front steps. he slipped on the first one. . . .
When I worked on a burn unit the gasoline/bonfire thing was fairly common. It was particularly sad when it was an older person who was previously independent, but you knew would have a hard time coming back and would probably end in LTC. Just because they wanted to see a big "whoosh."
I once had a guy who worked at a fish store and had cut himself in the groin with a big cleaver. Said he was trying to cut a frozen slab. He missed the genitals, happily. Got his inner thigh sewed up.
When I was about 12 I heated up a chicken tv dinner, I was walking through the kitchen and I don't remember how it happened but I spilled the juice from the corn on my abdomen. Got a nasty second degree burn on my belly. Flash burns hurt too! We have a gas stove, when the oven ignites it fills up with gas first and then whoosh! I know it is unsafe and we are crazy fro not replacing it. I was sitting in the floor in front of it putting groceries in the refrigerator. :angryfire
Didn't see this one in the hospital - the guy (an acquiantance) told me about it on the street. He and his buddies were out hunting and he got hungry. They were driving around on the back dirt roads and he didn't want to miss any opportunities, so he placed a can of ravioli on the manifold and drove about five miles. Ravioli was definitely heated up so he cracked open the lid and begins driving again - it was boiling and you know how it can suddenly go pop and spew straight up in the air? Third degree burns to his nose and forehead.
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down in SC it's not too often that we get and ice storm that debilitated our area as last winter. this darwin award winner boiled water in a 2 gallon bason to pour down his front steps. he slipped on the first one. . . .
3rd degree burns to his groin.
bought him a ride to the Augusta Burn Center.